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80-G-220334 Fighter Squadron Seventeen

Fighter Squadron Seventeen
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Title: Fighter Squadron Seventeen
Caption: AMM3C L. W. Jordan adds "Kill" flags to the squadron's scoreboard, bring the total to 154 Japanese planes destroyed in aerial combat in the Solomons. Photograph dated 23 March 1944, possibly taken at Bougainville. Note censored squadron number above its "Skull & Crossbones" emblem.
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Catalog #: 80-G-220334
Copyright Owner: National Archives
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Original Date: Thu, Mar 23, 1944
After this Year: 1939
Before this Year: 1945
Original Medium: BW Photo
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